The document discusses fundraising strategies and sources of funding for cataloguing archives, including national cataloguing grants. It outlines how a fundraising strategy provides an effective approach and connects fundraising with an organization's mission. Potential external funding sources include government funding, trusts and foundations, lottery funding, private funding, and income generation. National cataloguing grants aim to address the backlog of uncatalogued collections by supporting cataloguing of significant collections that need external funding to provide public access.

1. FUNDRAISING: Strategy, sources
and National Cataloguing Grants
Fleur Soper
Collections Knowledge Manager
The National Archives

2. FUNDRAISING STRATEGY BENEFITS
• Provides an effective approach
• Connects fundraising with overall
mission and values
• Connects fundraising with advocacy
• Provides an overview of sources
available
• Allows analysis of need, and planning
of which sources to target in the mix

3. FUNDING SOURCES
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Potential external sources of funding include:
• Government and statutory funding
• Trusts and foundations
• Lottery funding
• Private funding
• Income generation
• Current funding opportunities

4. NATIONAL CATALOGUING GRANTS PURPOSE
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• To address the large and growing backlog of
un-catalogued collections across the UK
• supports the cataloguing of collections that
need external funding to provide access to
their content
• Public sector bodies, Registered charities,
not-for-profit organisations
•Publicly accessible archives

5. NATIONAL CATALOGUING GRANTS PRINCIPLES
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• Funds cataloguing of archives in all formats,
supports wider benefits
• Significant collections, strategic approach,
priorities, core resources, sustainable access

6. NATIONAL CATALOGUING GRANTS RESOURCES
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• Guidance
• Who was funded
• Case studies
•nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-
sector/cataloguing-grants-programme
• Everything you need to know? If not...

7. FUNDRAISING: STRATEGY, SOURCES AND NATIONAL
CATALOGUING GRANTS
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THANK YOU!
fleur.soper@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk